"In our culture, we get very much into short-handing people," he explained. "And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blah blah blah.

"It's hard to shake those sort of narratives. You were looking at that one-liner on me in 2003, which was definitely the annus horribilis of my life."

Affleck and Lopez began dating in 2002 before they filmed the critically panned romantic comedy Gigli. The couple got engaged in November of the same year and Affleck appeared in the music video for Lopez's single 'Jenny From The Block'.

Their highly publicised relationship eventually ended in 2004, and Affleck began seeing his Daredevil co-star Jennifer Garner, with whom he now has three children.